Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics
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advanced neutron star interior modeling
Author_Fridolin Weber
Baryon Number
Baryon Number Density
boson condensate formation
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Central Energy Density
Chemical Equilibrium
Crust Density
dense matter physics
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Energy Density
Energy Momentum Tensor
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Gravitational Mass
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HF Approximation
hyperon population models
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Local Inertial Frames
Millisecond Pulsars
Mixed Phase Region
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Momentum Distribution Function
neutron star equation of state
Neutron Stars
Nuclear Matter
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Partial Wave Expansion
Quark Matter
quark matter phase transition
Radial Oscillations
relativistic field theory
Rotating Neutron Stars
Rotating Star
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Stellar Models
Strange Matter
Strange Quark
Strange Stars
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White Dwarfs
Product details
- ISBN 9780750303323
- Weight: 1450g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Pulsars, generally accepted to be rotating neutron stars, are dense, neutron-packed remnants of massive stars that blew apart in supernova explosions. They are typically about 10 kilometers across and spin rapidly, often making several hundred rotations per second. Depending on star mass, gravity compresses the matter in the cores of pulsars up to more than ten times the density of ordinary atomic nuclei, thus providing a high-pressure environment in which numerous particle processes, from hyperon population to quark deconfinement to the formation of Boson condensates, may compete with each other. There are theoretical suggestions of even more "exotic" processes inside pulsars, such as the formation of absolutely stable strange quark matter, a configuration of matter even more stable than the most stable atomic nucleus, ^T56Fe. In the latter event, pulsars would be largely composed of pure quark matter, eventually enveloped in nuclear crust matter.
These features combined with the tremendous recent progress in observational radio and x-ray astronomy make pulsars nearly ideal probes for a wide range of physical studies, complementing the quest of the behavior of superdense matter in terrestrial collider experiments. Written by an eminent author, Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics gives a reliable account of the present status of such research, which naturally is to be performed at the interface between nuclear physics, particle physics, and Einstein's theory of relativity.
